UPDATE: more details have emerged from Brussels as the country is placed on the highest terror alert.

Below from IOL:

Explosions tore through the departure hall of Brussels airport on Tuesday morning killing up to 10 people and injuring 30 others and a second blast struck a metro station in the capital shortly afterwards…

Video showed devastation inside the departure hall with ceiling tiles and glass scattered across the floor.

RTBF said the metro station hit by the explosion was close to European Union institutions.

Authorities closed all metro stations in Brussels, but there were no details immediately available of any casualties in this second incident of the day…

Brussels airport said it had cancelled all flights and the complex had been evacuated and trains to the airport had been stopped. Passengers were taken to coaches from the terminal that would remove them to a secure area.

Below is the post from earlier this morning, including video from the scene and a live Sky News feed…

It appears that Belgium’s Zaventem Airport has been the scene of an orchestrated terrorist attack, with two explosions having gone off in the departures area.

Whilst details remain sketchy here’s what we know from the BBC:

The Belgian fire service told local media there were at least several dead and wounded…

The blasts come four days after the capture in Brussels of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris attacks in November.

Here is some video from the airport in the moments that followed the explosion:

Then there is this from Sky News:

Sky’s Alex Rossi, at the scene, said: “I was in the duty free in Zaventem Airport and I heard two very, very loud explosions.

“I could feel the building move. There was also dust and smoke as well.

“I went towards where the explosion came from and there were people coming out looking very dazed and shocked.

“The thinking here is that it is some kind of terrorist attack although that hasn’t been verified by any of the authorities here at the airport.

“Don’t know how the explosion took place, the method if you like. But it certainly seems Brussels airport has been targeted in a terrorist attack.

“We are all being moved out of the airport now towards the emergency exit.

These are some of the live updates feeding through from another Sky News article:

Shots were fired and Arabic was heard being shouted prior to the explosions, a Belgian news agency has reported

For the latest on both attacks you can watch Sky News below:

We’ll keep you posted as more footage and information emerges.

[sources:bbc,skynews]